Sultan of Oman has died

Arab News ^ | Jan. 11, 2020

[nuconvert]

Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said died on Friday evening, state media said early on Saturday. Qaboos, 79, had ruled the Gulf Arab state since he took over in a bloodless coup in 1970.

Qaboos had no children and had not publicly appointed a successor. A 1996 statute says the ruling family will choose a successor within three days of the throne becoming vacant.

If they fail to agree, a council of military and security officials, supreme court chiefs and heads of the two assemblies will put in power the person whose name has been secretly written by the sultan in a sealed letter.

[Hot Tabasco]

I've been to Oman a couple of times;

A coworker's brother spent his career there teaching English. I often kidded her that he was really a CIA agent and being a teacher was just a cover........

[OrangeHoof]

Trump’s fault.

Thank you. 53 posts before anyone brings the obvious MSM angle. I was beginning to think I wasn't reading FR.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Thank you. 53 posts before anyone brings the obvious MSM angle.”

I was amazed no one had posted it before I did.

[GreenHornet]

I guess it’s true that celebrities die in threes: Don Imus, Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, and Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

[NFHale]

Yeah, clearly, “dat ain’t what dey call Rock an’ Roll...”

[SunkenCiv]

This could get interesting.

[DesertRhino]

That reminds me, I need to get my oil changed today

[Eleutheria5]

!!!!!MICHAEL MOORE???!!!!

[Impy]

O, man, sorry to hear that.

[Impy]

😂

[Impy]

Dude stole the throne from his father.

Exiled him to the UK where he lived in a hotel and eat a fried Mars bar every day (I think that was him) till he died (which wasn’t very long).

[Impy]

The new Sultan “also holds the positions of prime minister, supreme commander of the armed forces, minister of defence, minister of finance, and minister of foreign affairs”

#monarchy

[Cronos]

I echo your sentiment. Genuinely nice people and a beautiful, authentic country